Blog archive - Turtlebones

2026

03/28 Lemme Get This Strait
03/16 Amazing Singapore – No Messing Around
03/04 Lifelong Learning
02/21 Visiting our Cousins in the Jungle
02/15 Bali to Belitung
01/24 Lombok to Bali
01/16 Launching Turtlebones 2026

2025

09/27 Indonesia – The Homeward Leg
09/12 Long Passage Completed
09/05 My Torres Diary
09/02 Big Hop Update – The Strait Awaits
08/17 Breathtaking Vanuatu
08/03 Farewell Unforgettable Fiji Farewell
07/21 Fiji Circumnavigation
07/08 Dream on Sailor
06/25 SAVUSAVU DIARY
06/14 Land Ho!
06/12 Food Tells the Tale of a Passage
06/04 Turtlebones at sea!
06/01 NoForeignLand
05/19 Ode to Tender
05/13 Threading the Weather Needle
04/18 Hunkered Down in the City of Sails
04/04 Splish Splash
03/19 Heroic Circumnavigators
03/15 Last Day on South Island
03/12 Bluff Oysters
03/10 Driving in New Zealand – Six Observations
03/02 The sun sets in the east
02/28 Land Cruising – New Zealand-Style
02/26 Icebreaker

2023

09/29 On Polynesian Design Brilliance
09/24 First Week in Aotearoa New Zealand
09/21 Pacific Crossing Musings
09/16 Arrival in New Zealand
09/11 NZ Crossing cont’d
09/10 The last lap – sailing to New Zealand
09/07 Tonga Update
08/27 Vava’u (va-vow), Tonga (tong-uh, the G is silent, like song)
08/20 Approaching Tonga, Reflecting on Niue
08/14 Niue rising, still rising
08/11 Suwarrow to Niue
08/02 Landfall in Suwarrow
08/02 Fast Cat, Dawdling
07/30 Fragile Atolls
07/29 En Route to Tonga
07/25 Leaving French Polynesia
07/17 Crisis Averted!
07/16 The Saga Continues…
07/06 I feel a saga about to begin …
07/01 Happy Canada Day!
06/30 Tahiti and Moorea
06/29 The Stuff of Dreams
06/23 Toau
06/23 From Life to Lunch, from Dreams to Disaster
06/19 193
06/16 Tuamotu Diary, the fragile archipelago
06/06 Ships of Plenty
06/04 Fakarava Diary
05/27 Paddling About Fakarava
05/25 Travelling Home
05/22 Fakarava Diving with O2
05/21 Archipel des Tuamotu, safe arrival
05/21 Welcome to Fakarava
05/18 24 hours to Fakarava
05/16 Farewell to the Marquesas
05/16 A great last day in Nuku Hiva
05/15 Casualty at Sea!
05/14 Marquesas, one more thing
05/13 Nuku Diving
05/12 Marquesas Diary, final installment, the northern islands
05/12 Nuku Hiva – last stop of the Marquesas (again)
05/11 Marquesas Diary, Tahuata
05/10 Marquesas Diary, Fatu Hiva aborted
05/09 Marquesas Diary, Hiva Oa
05/08 Marquesas Diary, water baby makes landfall
05/06 Tahuta, Hiva Oa, Ua Huka, Ua Pau
05/04 Learning about Paepae
05/01 What a drag
04/30 Things I learned at Hiva Oa
04/29 Paradise found
04/29 Shawn gets tatted up!
04/26 We avoid a Monsoon and Land Ho!
04/25 On Final Approach
04/24 Is any day non-eventful?
04/22 A late night blow and…
04/22 Tadpoles no Longer!
04/21 Shawn jumps overboard!
04/21 Confessions of a Lackadaisical Fisher
04/20 Light up my life
04/19 The final leg, again…
04/17 Soon We Will be Shellbacks
04/17 Exocoetidae
04/16 Making waves & showers
04/15 Approaching 1/2 Way
04/15 Late for Dinner
04/14 When did that happen?
04/13 Darkest Night
04/12 Creatures of the Sea
04/12 Winging it
04/11 A Brief Dash of Colour as Turtlebones Veers South
04/10 Monday’s deep thoughts
04/09 Found!
04/08 Thoughts on communications…
04/07 One Last Glimpse of Mexico – And Into a Whole New World
04/07 Night two…
04/06 First Sunset
04/05 Are we safe?
04/05 Turtlebones has left the marina!
04/05 Allons-y! Nous partons demain matin. Leaving the dock tomorrow morning …
04/01 Back in Mexico
03/26 The Adventure Continues…
03/20 Origins of the Dream
03/19 Abracadabra – Now you see it…
03/15 Run Baby Run!
03/14 Myth of Sisyphus
03/11 Stuck in Paradise (Village)
03/10 The Power Struggle
03/08 The Generator Goes AWOL
03/06 Generators go (and we hope come)
03/05 Hardship in Puerta Vallarta – NOT
03/04 The Countdown is Back On
02/23 Les vagaries de le vent
02/23 A Pause in the Action
02/17 Counting Down
02/16 Welcome to Turtlebones
01/29 Preparing for Departure